Not surprisingly, many of the SS death camp commandants and officers were ‘euthanasia’ experts. Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Belzec death camps, thanks to their gargantuan ‘euthanasia’ practices, became colossal recycling centers where all of the victims belongings that was carried on the trains to its final destination, was not only confiscated and stolen, but salvaged as well. In fact, human hair shaved from euthanized victims was later recycled and sown into Nazi army uniforms to help keep the Germans warm on the battle front. Hair was also recycled to help seal German submarines. More sickening still, there is a pair of gloves made of human skin on display in the World War II museum in Kiev. All of the robbed jewelry, gold rings, bracelets, and teeth, were of course a financial bonanza, but nothing was to be wasted. The Nazi recycling fetish went so far so as to include the attempt to generate gas from inmate’s feces in sludge experiments that apparently claimed thousands of lives. Even the grease of human fat that oozed from the piles of corpses when they were burned was sometimes thrown back into the hellish fires to stoke the flames even more. In Auschwitz, the human ashes were placed in a stormwater mill pond and later recycled as fertilizer. On September 4, 1943, regimental order 37 was handed down from the German commander of Police Battalion 101 in Lublin, Poland demanding his men clean up their litter and recycle whatever can be re-used. He had become aware that “large quantities of wrapping material, mineral water, and other bottles lie about.” He then threatened punishment upon those who wasted any re-usable materials, “It is irresponsible that in the present raw material and supply conditions, the responsible persons do not endeavor to make immediate renewed use of the empty containers and the wrapping material.” Situated in eastern Poland, Lublin was the command center of Operation Reinhard where the notorious death camps of Belzec, Sobibor, Majdanek, and Treblinka all received their directives. At these death camps, just like Auschwitz, recycling and murderous euthanasia practices went hand in hand.
Good gosh, I can barely read your post, too horrible. Here in LA at the Museum of Tolerance there are items made from Torah parchments. I believe there are plenty of things at the Holocaust Museum in DC as well.
Judaism says that every human has both urges within him/her. The urge to do what is wrong and the urge to do what is right. The Nazis only followed the one. Like ISIS. Man’s potential for inhumanity is as infinite as his potential for good.